Southern Pacific (5 Volumes)
Our spectacular programs documenting the zenith of steam-era railroading on the Shasta, San Joaquin, Coast Daylight and SF Peninsula routes A handsome storage box will be included FREE with purchase of 3 or more DVDs from the series.
DVD $29.95 each / $120 for all 5
STREAM VOLUME 5 - $4.50 (see below)
VOLUME 1 : Shasta Route - Mostly California
VOLUME 2: Shasta Route - Mostly Oregon
ERA - The Halcyon days of the post WWII decade. A steam bonanza, heavyweights, new streamliners and diesels. The zenith of pre-fallen flag railroading!
THE ROUTE - SP’s West Coast Route from the Bay Area to Portland Oregon.
OFF THE MAIN - Style Bs on the Siskiyou Line; articulateds on the Modoc line; Oregon’s Tillamook and Coos Bay Branches, plus logging RRs.
Both 70 Min. Color • DVD • Digital Sound Effects with Narration
VOLUME 3: San Joaquin Route
Freight and passenger trains from the Bay Area via the Tehachapi Loop to Los Angeles, c.1950. 16mm color films form the backbone of this incredible show of train after train fast running down the valley where they took on helpers for the grueling climb over the mountains.
55 Min. Color • DVD • Digital Sound Effects with Narration
VOLUME. 4: Coast Daylight Route
“The Most Beautiful Train in the World”. The luxurious, strikingly-painted streamliner was conceived in the depths of the depression and revolutionized rail coach travel, along the scenic route from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Includes mail trains, freights and local switching.
54 min. • DVD • Mostly Color with Narration and Sound effects.
VOLUME 5: San Francisco Peninsula Route - 1954
As steam locomotives were replaced by diesels, they were shunted to the Peninsula to work out their last days in commute service. A segment of this program documents a typical afternoon rush hour as everything from 2400-class Pacifics to 4400-class mountain types thunder out of San Francisco at three-minute intervals. The finale of the halcyon days of one hundred years of steam are being played out in front of our eyes, as though there is no end in sight. Yet within two years steam will be dead for all time on the SP.
History of the SF&SJ RR
Mission Bay and Bayshore Yards
The “Commute Parade” at 3rd and Townsend
Santa Cruz Branch / Sun Tan Special
San Jose Yard & Lenzen Roundhouse
Los Gatos Branch, “Big Game” Trains
Special Bonus: Market Street Railway “40 Line”
58 Min • DVD • All Color • Stereo Sound • 16X9 Wide Screen
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